Pot-Bound Fig

[WrexTheDragon]

I have a fig that is only 12 inches tall and got 5 fruit last year. This year the leaves are just opening and it looks like I may get 5 fruit again. The one I just repotted is grown as a standard and is 5 foot tall. Leaves are out, but cannot see any signs of fruit.

I hope this warm spell will get them moving. Once the small fruit form they grow fairly quickly.

[jaimie]

I bought three fig plants earlier this year and still haven't got round to planting two of them yet, but when I was looking at the Kadota (still in it's original pot) it has two teeny figs on it already.

Will these be this years figs or will they stay on to ripen next year?

[sarraceniac]

Hi Jaimie. This years baby figs become next years eating figs, as long as you don't lose them to cold weather over the winter. My outdoor one has never presented me with an edible fig. The one in the cold greenhouse is fine.

[ginger ninger]

I have 2 fig bush's and there both full of leaves and small figlets, between them there's 15 fig's for this year (if they all ripen) there both very pot bound and will stay like that for the next year or so.

I'm going to make you all jealous now, this is the older one in fig last year .

[jaimie]

This years baby figs become next years eating figs, as long as you don't lose them to cold weather over the winter. My outdoor one has never presented me with an edible fig. The one in the cold greenhouse is fine.

Thanks Sarraceniac. I hadn't realised they did this kind of thing. I hadn't noticed tiny figlets becoming next year's figs on our huge fig trees in France, but it could be because I hadn't looked, or perhaps to do with the longer hotter summers. And very cold winters. Either way, thanks for the info.